What We Should Learn From Sci-Fi Movies

Love the genre or hate it, science fiction movies are born from nerds and geeks who weave their imagination on the large screen.

Culminating in a plethora of gizmo and gadgetry they want to see in the coming years, sci-fi flicks are the distant dreams of the child inside them. Fortunately, we tend to see few of them shaping up into reality, but there are many that are yet beyond our reach. Let’s have a look at few of them that need to see the light of the day, soon!

1. Iron Man’s J.A.R.V.I.S.

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Just A Rather Very Intelligent System or more famously known as J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Iron Man series, is one artificial intelligence who is smart, agile, quick, and almost human-like. Tony Stark’s personal assistant and housekeeper, J.A.R.V.I.S. has a sharp presence of mind and is capable of understanding and comprehending a situation with thorough efficiency without the hassle of misinterpreting someone because of the dialect or pronunciation. Other than that, J.A.R.V.I.S. also exuded a certain level of conscious that eliminated the artificiality to a whole new level. Siri and Google Now do tend to pull this off to a certain extent, but the refinement is missing. It’s time Google takes their pet projects to the next level!

2. Minority Report’s User Interface

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This Tom Cruise starrer was a sci-fi thriller that made us believe that we are closer to futuristic reality than we think. Giving us a glimpse into gesture recognition and motion sensing among various other things, the movie portrayed how our future user interface should act and function. Swift, quick and easy to manoeuvre, those precious few minutes of Tom Cruise tinkering with the system gave us an insight into how our future should look, act and feel. Although we do have gesture recognition being served to us on a silver platter in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S4 that allows you to do tonnes of task with simple hand gestures, the technology is yet to reach its peak, and soon we will see us orchestrating our gadgets like a flamboyant conductor!

3. Recall Implants From Total Recall

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We may remember the original Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger who straps himself to a machine that takes him to Mars in a game-like hyper-realistic environment with a mission to save the planet. Maybe this might be a tad too far-fetched, but we are already seeing major strides in terms of virtual reality. The Oculus Rift with its headgear put gamers straight into the battlefield with a wide field of vision, and Omni, a new and innovative gaming accessory allowed users to strap themselves into the character’s shoes and actually act out every move the game needed. In simpler terms, your physical actions are now replicated by the character in the game! It’s only time before the graphics finally catch up and start delivering realistic visuals.